Author: Diana Kenney

By Chloe Hadavas (UChicago ’17) A century-old pas de deux culminated in 2013, when the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory entered into a formal affiliation. The histories of UChicago and the Woods Hole, Massachusetts, nonprofit center for biology, biodiversity, and environmental research had long been intertwined. “The two institutions were, in a

The Microbiome Center is an intellectual home for scientists and physicians from University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory who are studying microbes in a wide range of environments, from the human gut to beneath the ocean floor. Understanding microbial activity affects endeavors from medicine and surgery to climate change science. The

By Diana Kenney Staying alive in the desert is no simple matter for green algae whose evolutionary ancestors lived in the ocean. How can some algal species survive extreme drought, while others desiccate and die? Two MBL scientists are finding out, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI). This month,

The University of Chicago’s annual E.E. Just Lecture will be presented on Nov. 17 by Professor Malcolm Byrnes of Howard University, a scholar of Just’s life and work. Just was an influential American biologist who received his Ph.D. from UChicago in 1916. He first came to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in 1909 with his

It’s an intensely creative time, each June, July and August, when the MBL’s five neuroscience courses are running full tilt and their research agendas seem limited only by the human need to sleep. If any environment can propel us toward a deep understanding of how the brain works, it’s this one, claim Rae Nishi and

The symphony of squid early development is vividly rendered in this video by Nipam Patel, which artfully combines images and video generated in the MBL Embryology Course between 2007 and 2016. Patel is on the faculty of the Embryology course and is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and in the

By James Briscoe It’s 10 pm on a Saturday night as I write this and I’m on a flight from London to Boston. I’m heading to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts where I will be spending the week teaching on an advanced study course, aimed at graduate students and post-docs in my

By Bethany Brookshire Anyone who reads news about science (at Science News or otherwise) will recognize that, like the X-Men or any other superhero franchise, there’s a recurring cast of experimental characters. Instead of Magneto, Professor X, Mystique and the Phoenix, scientists have mice, fruit flies, zebrafish and monkeys. Different types of studies use different